Saturday, April 28, 2018

After more than 100 updates to www.valueaddbasketball.com and the google sheet, Sam Hauser now projects as the 37th best player in the nation and all four Big East players ahead of him (Khyri Thomas, Omari Spellman, Jessie Govan and Donte DiVincenzo) put their names into the NBA draft. If all four are successful, Hauser would move up to the preseason Big East Player of the Year.

At www.valueaddbasketball.com we do not actually list Govan as potentially leaving, because if a player entered his name without an agent but is not appearing in mock drafts, we assume he will return - so it is likely at least he is back and any of the other three could be as well. However, the other three could all go in the first round which is tough to turn down due to the guaranteed money over three years.

If you take out all Big East players trying to go pro this year, then your leader board becomes; 1) S. Hauser, 2, Justin Simon of St. John's, 3, Eric Paschall of Villanova, and 4, Markus Howard. Here are the top 25 including those who plan to stay and 2020 players.

My gut is that not only is Joseph Chartouny going to excel well beyond his expectations going from perhaps the worst three-point shooting team in the country to perhaps the best - but I believe Howard will shoot up as well playing opposite the best defensive guard in the nation to not get physically worn down on one end to free him up to go score on the other end consistently

Season Rank

Player

Team

Value Add

25

Khyri Thomas #2/could go NBA

Creighton

8.03

29

Omari Spellman #14/could go NBA

Villanova

8.01

33

Jessie Govan #15 (long shot NBA)

Georgetown

7.95

35

Donte DiVincenzo #10/could go NBA

Villanova

7.84

37

Sam Hauser #10

Marquette

7.81

38

Shamorie Ponds #2/could go NBA

St. John's

7.81

67

Omer Yurtseven #14/2020

Georgetown

7.04

97

Justin Simon #5

St. John's

6.62

101

Eric Paschall #4

Villanova

6.59

111

Max Strus #31/ could go nba

DePaul

6.5

113

Markus Howard #0

Marquette

6.5

115

Myles Powell #13

Seton Hall

6.48

134

Kamar Baldwin #3

Butler

6.34

196

Alpha Diallo #11

Providence

5.54

211

Jahvon Quinerly

Villanova

5.4

229

Paul Jorgensen #5

Butler

5.28

246

Martin Krampelj #15

Creighton

5.18

278

Marvin Clark #13

St. John's

4.93

294

Sean McDermott #22

Butler

4.85

305

Phil Booth #5

Villanova

4.74

316

Ryan Welage #32

Xavier

4.66

329

Tyrique Jones #0

Xavier

4.58

363

Mikey Dixon 3

St. John's

4.38

374

Naji Marshall #13

Xavier

4.32

403

Nate Fowler #51

Butler

4.18

I did post the updated team rankings in the previous post, however it did also occur to me that if you click on the team rankings at www.valueaddbasketball.com and then put 2019 in the search field, it takes on the values of the Top 8 players on the team to get a slightly different list. Marquette comes out the same at 26th - though it shows up at 27th since the top 8 "available" players would add up to the second team. Nevada has so much of their value tied up in players that could go NBA or could transfer that they could stay near the top or could plummet - but if you go with Top 8 right now they are actually ahead of even the big teams.